PHOLIDOTEUTHIDAE VOSS, 1956

Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Á, Taite, Morag, Vecchione, Michael, Villanueva, Roger & Allcock, A Louise, 2022, A phylogenomic look into the systematics of oceanic squids (order Oegopsida), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4), pp. 1212-1235 : 1228

FAMILY PHOLIDOTEUTHIDAE VOSS, 1956

(TWO SPECIES IN ONE GENUS)

Diagnosis: Large adult-sized Oegopsida with buccal connectives attached to the ventral borders of ventral arms; with two series of arm suckers; tentacles with long tentacle clubs, carpal locking apparatuses poorly developed or absent; small flaps with short membranes present near the base of lateral tentacle suckers; club suckers transversally compressed, dactylus poorly defined, with terminal pad; dermal cushions or papillose tubercules present in skin; funnel–mantle locking apparatus straight, reaching the anterior margin of the mantle; without photophores; with primary or secondary conus; digestive gland far posterior to the nuchal cartilage; without hectocotylization.